The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's List (Leon Leyson)

Summary: Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto.  With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow.  Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, a man named Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson's life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory--a list that would become world renowned: Schindler's List.  (from amazon.com)

Where can I find it?: Lower/Middle School library, Lithgow building

Tags: Jewish children in the Holocaust; Poland--Narewka; Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013; Jews; Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974; Poland--Kraków; Poland--Plaszów; Nazi concentration camp inmates